Sentences with phrase «greatest emissions impact»

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Surprisingly, this is the area in which the greatest impact can be made in reducing GHG emissions.

Several other administration policies are likely to have a greater impact on global greenhouse - gas emissions, including the Environmental Protection Agency's rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants and its first - ever carbon limits on cars and light trucks.

As part of a greater need than ever before to protect our environment, it makes sense to know whether your bamboo flooring is fully compliant with formaldehyde emissions requirements and you should also be aware that the quality and type of resins used during the manufacturing process will have a direct impact on the price that you pay for your flooring product.

«At the end of the day, economic incentives for cleaner, less - polluting energy will have a greater impact on reducing CO2 emissions than a non-binding agreement with no enforcement mechanisms,» Faso said in a statement.

«This finding was of interest,» they write, «as it emphasises the paradox involved in LCT, in that tourists are travelling greater distances to view the destination that is in danger, contributing higher levels of emissions and thus exacerbating the impacts of climate change.»

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

Removing subsidies in richer oil and gas exporting regions would therefore provide significantly greater emissions savings and have a less detrimental impact on the poor.

Biofuels use more land area, generate more greenhouse gas emissions, and have a greater impact on the environment than other alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, solar thermal energy, or wind power.

«When Google announced the launch of their self - driving car project, there was a great deal of excitement,» said Jeffrey Greenblatt, one of the co-authors of the study, «but nobody seemed to be looking at how these cars could impact greenhouse gas emissions.»

The report concluded that the feeding reservoirs were in fact a greater source of dioxins in food than emissions are, «and suggest that further risk management actions to reduce emissions from controlled sources beyond those already in place will have little or no additional impact on food levels.»

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

By midcentury, this would add up to nearly a quarter - billion more Chinese than currently projected by the U.N. And given China's impact on the environment, especially greenhouse gas emissions, this change of policy clearly portends a great deal.

I would have said it is transparently obvious that ice volume is a better measure than ice area, if you want to understand long - term trend and the impact of human emissions — though it's great to have both measures.

«efforts to address climate change should continue to focus most heavily on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in combination with adapting to the impacts of climate change because these approaches do not present poorly defined and poorly quantified risks and are at a greater state of technological readiness.»

Increasing human population and greater need for energy as countries develop will also all impact on emission levels and costs.

A CES that includes efficiency along with all low - and zero - emission technologies should have no greater impact on energy prices than proposals for a renewable energy standard.

But new rules for emissions from existing plants — which account for 39 percent of energy - related U.S. emissions — could have a much greater impact.

The document focused on hothouse emissions that have the greatest impact on the climate.

(3) The countries most vulnerable to climate change, due both to greater exposure to harmful impacts and to lower capacity to adapt, are developing countries with very low industrial greenhouse gas emissions that have contributed less to climate change than more affluent countries.

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(B) areas of focus for additional study of technologies, operations, and strategies with the greatest potential to reduce emissions of black carbon and associated public health, economic, and environmental impacts associated with these emissions; and

UN Secretary - General António Guterres will convene a high - level Summit in 2019 targeting sectors that could have the greatest impacts on reducing emissions and building climate resilience.

A new report has found failing to tackle climate change will have a greater impact on supermarket prices than an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Even if natural gas combustion creates approaching 50 percent less CO2 equivalent per unit of energy produced, an amount which is well beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not create the much greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years to give any hope of limiting warming from exceeding levels that will cause catastrophic impacts.

In arguing that the United States or other high - emitting nations need not reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions based on cost, how have you considered, if at all, that all nations have agreed in international climate negotiations to take steps to limit warming to 2 degree C because warming greater than this amount will not only create harsh impacts for tens of millions of people but runs the risk of creating rapid non-linear warming that will outstrip the ability of people and nations to adapt?

Simply stated, the differential impact from the gargantuan, modern CO2 emissions on global 5 - year average warming should be significantly greater than pre-modern, natural warming for 5 - year averages.

Photo by Luciana Gallardo Lomeli / WRI With greenhouse gas emissions climbing and climate impacts becoming increasingly severe, the urgency to address climate change has never been greater.

The former coal plants accounted for the bulk of the negative health impacts, due for example to their much greater size and higher levels of sulphur dioxide emissions, which were largely linked to continued coal burning at co-fired sites.

With greenhouse gas emissions climbing and climate impacts becoming increasingly severe, the urgency to address climate change has never been greater.

Because it has been scientifically well established that there is a great risk of catastrophic harm from human - induced change (even though it is acknowledged that there are remaining uncertainties about timing and magnitude of climate change impacts), no high - emitting nation, sub-national government, organization, business, or individual of greenhouse gases may use some remaining scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts as an excuse for not reducing its emissions to its fair share of safe global greenhouse gas emission on the basis of scientific uncertainty.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

That means that the chief takeaway of HELIX's research for policymakers is that, while the greatest risks from climate change can still be avoided by reducing global emissions, it's too late, at this point, to avoid all impacts.

The bottom line of the Bond et al. study is that the relative impact of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is much less than widely thought, the relative impact of black carbon is greater than thought, and climate models» views of the past and projections of the future must therefore be tainted.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

Impact of residential emissions on particle concentration greatest in East and South Asia and Eastern Europe

These impacts are expected to grow with continued climate change — the higher the levels of heat trapping gas emissions, the greater the impacts.

Eichner (1990) in a review of N2O emission studies suggest that the source of N is important although, Mosier et al. (1993) in their review propose that soil management and cropping system has a greater impact than the source of N. McTaggart et al. (1993) show that timing and type of fertilizer can affect N2O emissions depending on the cause of the emissions.

As poor countries and their people move out of poverty, though, they will have a greater impact on the land they occupy, and will consume more resources and produce more emissions and waste, just as the rich world does today.

«The tremendous wind resources of the northern Great Plains have many Indian tribes looking at utility scale renewable energy generation as a «no - regrets» sustainable homeland economic development strategy, with a positive impact on CO2 emission reductions.

The impacts on marine pH derived from anthropogenic CO2 emissions have received the greatest attention and have led to a growing spectrum of research programs focused around the paradigm of OA by anthropogenic CO2 (Caldeira and Wickett 2003; Raven et al. 2005; Doney et al. 2009).

... But Developed World Needs to Acknowledge It's Greater Per Capita Impact We also need to acknowledge that the emissions of one person in the developed world, based simply on our levels of natural resource consumption and how our societies are structured from an energy - use standpoint, is far greater than a person living in a developing cGreater Per Capita Impact We also need to acknowledge that the emissions of one person in the developed world, based simply on our levels of natural resource consumption and how our societies are structured from an energy - use standpoint, is far greater than a person living in a developing cgreater than a person living in a developing country.

That is Chinese & Indian emissions have greater impact being released at lower latitudes.

• Emissions could have far greater impact in Europe, where almost half passenger cars are diesel, than the US

The model studies plus the theory of chemical feedbacks in the CH4 - CO-OH system (Prather, 1994) firmly established that the atmospheric lifetime of a perturbation (and hence climate impact and GWP) of CH4 emissions was about 50 % greater than reported in the FAR.

The report, known as AR5, finds with near certainty that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and that climate impacts are accelerating — including greater sea ice melt, sea level rise, and dangerous ocean and surface level warming.

There are easy things — greater energy efficiency, reductions in methane and black carbon emissions etc. — and there are harder things, scaling up renewable energy sources, electrifying surface transport, international agreements — but those actions should be able to steer our course away from the worst impacts (although some further warming is inevitable and will need to be adapted to in any case).]

While less meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy required to produce meat is «significantly» more than that for plant - based food production, which means that the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from meat production is also much higher, leading researchers to indicate that meat waste has a «greater negative environmental impact.»

(a) that the economic cost of «business as usual» (as a result of the impacts of global warming) is likely to be far greater in the long term than the cost of achieving emissions reductions at the required scale,

However, even with such a preference, greater efforts to reduce PIC and methane emissions appear warranted due to their large impacts.

When near - term impacts are deemed most important, the results indicate that society can reap the greatest benefits by targeting emissions reductions at PIC and sulfur dioxide.